Atheros WIFI is not recognized on FreeBSD 8.0-RC1

[Rui Paulo]

On 5 Jan 2010, at 14:25, Paul B Mahol wrote:

> On 1/4/10, Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh at redwerk.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 12:01:15PM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>> On 1/3/10, Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh at redwerk.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 11:54:55AM +0100, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>>>>> On 12/25/09, Eugene Dzhurinsky <bofh at redwerk.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 04:38:26PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>>>>>> Have you tried using if_ndis?
>>>>>> The kernel module I've created just hangs once loaded :(
>>>>> This is on amd64?
>>>> 
>>>> No, i386
>>> 
>>> Is anything displayed on console? Are you sure you are using
>>> 5.1 driveres (for XP) and not newer ones?
>> 
>> I am using xp3264-7.7.0.329-whql.zip file from Atheros.
>> 
>> When trying to convert the ones athwx.sys and netathwx.inf I am getting the
>> error:
>> 
>> ndiscvt: line 5117: : syntax error.
>> CONVERSION FAILED
> 
> Inf file appears to not end with EOL, I opened it with vim and just used :wq
> 

Maybe we should change ndiscvt to handle that.

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Rui Paulo